Sruti Bala

The gestures of participatory art (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Winner of the 2019 ASCA Book Award

Participation is the utopian sweet dream that has turned into a nightmare in contemporary neoliberal societies. Yet can the participatory ideal be discarded or merely replaced with another term, just because it has become disemboweled into a tool of pacification? The gestures of participatory art insists that the concept of participation must be re-imagined and shifted onto other registers. Moving from reflections on institutional critique and impact to concrete analyses of moments of unsolicited, delicate participation and refusal, the book examines a range of artistic practices from India, Sudan, Guatemala and El Salvador, the Lebanon, the Netherlands and Germany. It proposes the concept of the gesture as a way of theorising participatory art, situating it between the visual and the performing arts, as both individual and collective, both internal attitude and social habitude.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526107701
• Artikelnr.: 55006455

Autorenporträt

Sruti Bala is Associate Professor in Theatre Studies at the University of Amsterdam

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1 The gestures of institutional critique 2 On the inconvenient
means and ends of participation 3 Unsolicited gestures of participation 4
Vicarious gestures of participation 5 Delicate gestures of participation
Conclusion: between image, act and language Index